Car-seat indicator



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS H. ORNEY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CAR-SEAT INDICATOR.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,771., dated October' 16, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS H. CARNEY, ot` Boston, in the county ot' Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful apparatus which I term a Oar-Seat 1ndicator, and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following speciication, and represented in the accompanying drawings, ot which- Figure l is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a top view, Fig. 3 a transverse section, and Fig. 4 a rear eleva-tion, ot' it.

'In the said drawings, A denotes a box or receptacle in many respects like a common match-safe. It is made with two open chambers, c a., for holding ear-tickets. It also has two slides, B O, applied to opposite ends of it, so as to be capable ot' being drawn out and pushed into it, or one or more grooves or recesses, c, made in its back or otherwise prop erly arranged in it.

On the front face of each ot' these slides the word Engaged77 is to be printed or otherwise xed, and the word Tickets77 may be painted or otherwise fixed in the front ot' the box.

Each receptacle is to be open at the top, s0 that a ticket may easily be placed within or be removed from it, and also so that it may project far enough out ot' it to be seen by the conductor while in the act of passing along the aisle ot' the car.

It is intended for the apparatus to be atxed to the middle of the back ol' the seat next in front of that for which it may be employed, as an indicator of the seat being engaged or taken, and that the party who may have secured it has paid his fare.

As each car-seat is generally intended for two persons to seat themselves upon at once, and side by side, the two receptacles a and their slides will answer for such occupants of the seat; but, when the seat is single or ot' sutlicient size to accommodate one person only, the apparatus may be made with but one slide and one ticket-receptacle.

I would further remark that when the back ot' a seat is what is termed a turn-over back77 two of the indicators maybe applied to it, so as to stand in reversed directions to each other; or the indicator may be made with two or four ticket-receptacles, half ot' which will stand in opposite directions to the remainder, and there may be four of the engaged 7 slides to the apparatus.

Preparatory to leaving his seat temporarily for any purpose, the occupant should draw out the slide ot' his ticket-receiver, so as to expose the word Enga-ged7 thereof to view, in which case, during his absence, should any person attempt to appropriate the tem porarily-vacated seat, he will discover' that he will have no right to occupy it.

I claim asmy invention- The car-seat indicator constructed substantially in manner and for the purposes hereinbefore described.

F. H. OARNEY.

lVitnesses:

lt. H. EDDY, F. l. HALE, Jr. 

